Through the Labyrinth - Chapter 9
Organizational structure and culture tend to disadvantage this
What is women?
They face great disruption when career advancement requires a move to a new city
What is mothers?
The company that has been characterized as having a "Game-of-Thrones" environment where managers actively fought with their peers and sought to one-up and sabotage their own supervisors
What is Uber?
They feel the need to be warm and nice as well as competent and tough
What is female leaders?
The theme of Week 5 in our Gender and Leadership course
What is Workplace structure and Gender?
The factor that has become a prime indicator of one’s worth to the organization
What is hours spent working?
The terminology used to describe organizations placing women in high-level executive positions when the organizations are experiencing financial downturns and declines in performance
What is 'the glass cliff'?
The primary location in which men attempt to secure manhood and dominance over women and other men
What is the workplace?
The paradox that is between asserting one’s competence, and admitting one’s vulnerability and asking others to collaborate
What is authoritative yet participative paradox?
(From Through the Labyrinth) : The label given to women when they are allowed responsibility or participation for the sole reason of representation for the organization
What is token woman?
The terminology for the relationships between people and the feelings of mutual obligation and support that these relationships create
What is social capital?
The profession in which women are more likely than men to leave for different positions
What is lawyers at large firms?
The term that represents the most culturally honoured form of masculinity that maintains power and privilege for men
What is hegemonic masculinity?
The strategy where women leaders focus on simultaneously being nice to people and tough on tasks
What is be tough on tasks and soft on people?
(From How Women Manage the Gendered Norms of Leadership) : The strategy for managing tensions where you identify opportunities where niceness and toughness converge
What is look for win-wins?
The language expressed in masculine organizational culture
What is sports and military terminology?
The most frequent response in a survey of Boston women in executive and professional positions when asked about barriers to professional advancement
What is a male-dominated work culture?
One of the dimensions that emerged while testing the MCC scale that characterizes the workplace as a hyper competitive arena where winners dominate and exploit the losers.
What is 'dog-eat-dog'?
The strategy for managing tensions where at first you build relationships, establish trust, and engage people, and then you follow up with harder behaviour or language to challenge the status quo or achieve goals
What is go in order?
(From Through the Labyrinth) : The kind of networks that are limiting for women
What is all-women networks?
The proposed innovations to eliminate barriers for women in the workplace
What is more flexible work hours, reforming performance evaluations and recruitment, legitimizing women’s contributions as leaders, and reducing tokenism?
The two factors that extend the labyrinth that women negotiate as they attempt to rise in organizational hierarchies
What is demand for relocation and long hours?
Alonso’s and Kuchynka’s studies on why MCC persists highlighted this factor that impacts men’s place both in individual masculinity and the gender hierarchy
What is role status threats?
The paradox that involves meeting one’s needs and goals as well as others’
What is advocating for themselves yet serving others?
(From Work as a Masculinity Contest) : The example country used in the text in which men are seen as more communal than women
What is Japan?